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Stockholm University's Open Access Costs 2024

According to Stockholm University's (SU) open science policy, the university's research results and data should be published with an open license whenever possible. In 2024, Stockholm University spent SEK 28 902 206 on 1081 open access articles.

Stockholm University's central support for open access is managed by the university library (SUB). SUB covers the publishing costs for articles (APC, Article Publishing Charges) published under one of the library's “read and publish" agreements and for individual articles in journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

In the current scientific publishing landscape, universities must pay both for open access to articles and for licenses for reading access to locked articles. In 2024, 90% of all articles with a "corresponding author" from SU were published with open access and Stockholm University paid SEK 28,902,206 for 1,081 open access articles. Including the costs for e-journals, the total sum of open access and reading rights reached SEK 41,000,756.

The chart shows a breakdown of the publishers where the combined costs for e-journals (reading rights, orange) and open access publishing (blue) were highest in 2024, including publishers with only open access journals.

Together these publishers accounted for 86% of the total reading and publishing costs, nearly SEK 25 million.
 

Publisher Agreements

SUB has nearly 40 publisher agreements that include publishing. Most agreements are signed via the Bibsam Consortium, but in 2024, SUB also had its own agreements with the American Medical Association, American Society for Microbiology, American Physiological Society, Cogitatio, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Rockefeller University Press and SciPost. In 2024, these agreements covered 88% of the articles published openly at SU.

Read more about SUB's agreements and terms: su.se/english/apc   

 

Book Publishing Charges

SUB does not cover BPCs (Book Publishing Charges) or book chapters. In 2024, SU departments paid SEK 843,424 for BPCs.   

 

Alternative Publishing Models

SUB follows the development of alternative publishing models without APCs. One example is "Subscribe to Open" (S2O), a model where publishers make a journal volume openly accessible if they receive enough income from subscriptions. In 2024, SUB paid SEK 727,140 for S2O and similar models. The cost includes fees for memberships and support to open access initiatives.

 

Other Support for Open Access at SUB

Stockholm University Press is managed by SUB and is a researcher-driven publisher that publishes openly accessible, peer-reviewed books and journals.

Read more about Stockholm University Press

SUB contributes a project leader for a Nordic collaboration aimed at promoting open access e-book publishing without BPCs, known as "diamond" publishing.

Read more about the Nordic Capacity Centre for Diamond Open Access

SU Dynamica - SUstainable publishing is a new publishing platform where researchers can publish openly without cost and have their articles peer-reviewed. The articles receive a DOI and will eventually be registered in DiVA.

Read more about Dynamica

Would you like to learn more?

Contact the open access team: openaccess@su.se

Stockholms university´s policy for open science

 

Publishing Costs 2024

Total cost for publishing OA articles at SU in 2024: SEK 28,902,206

  • Individual APCs: SEK 2,857,657 (9.9% of costs)
  • National agreements via Bibsam: SEK 25,982,703 (89.9% of costs)
  • SUB's own agreements: SEK 61,845 (0.2%)

Number of OA articles in the report: 1,081

  • Articles in hybrid journals: 749 (69% of articles)
  • Articles in fully open-access journals: 332 (31% of articles)

Number of OA articles by payment method:

  • SUB's own agreements + individual APCs: 124 (11%)
  • Bibsam agreements: 957 (88%)  

 

Last updated: June 2, 2025

Source: Stockholm University Library

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